524 Reviews — Carez and Donrille's Annuaire Geologique. 



has brought up the number to 3550. The volume is continued on 

 the same plan as its predecessors : it commences with a numbered 

 bibliographic list, in which geology occupies 117 pages, and 

 palaeontology 31. The geological part of this is arranged geo- 

 graphically, each section being subdivided stratigraphically. The 

 bulk of the work is occupied by the " Revue," which is treated under 

 three main heads, stratigraphy, topography, and palaeontology. 

 Several additions and changes have, as usual, been made in the staff; 

 thus Dr. Trouessart no longer has to review the whole of the Verte- 

 brata and Arthropoda, as Dr. Deperet relieves him of all the Vertebrata 

 but the Mammalia, and MM. Dollfusand Bergeron of the Arthropoda. 

 M. Ch. Brongniart contributes for the first time the article on 

 Insecta. In general geology two new sections have been added, 

 viz. Petrography, by M. U. Le Verrier, and Volcanoes, by Dr. H. 

 Johnston-Lavis. M. Choffat has ceased to review the Jurassic 

 palaeontology, but continues in charge of the section on Spain and 

 Portugal. Asia is not this year omitted, as M. de Margerie has 

 contributed a note upon it. The longest sectional review is that 

 on Eussia, by Prof. Pavlov, which occupies thirty -three pages ; it 

 gives a good idea of the valuable work now being done in that 

 country. The titles of the papers are translated, but the authors' 

 names are transliterated on no definite plan, and this results in many 

 puzzling inconsistencies and anomalies. 



The " Annuaire " appears to experience the same difficulty as the 

 "Zoological Record" in getting specialists for all the groups; thus 

 in it some sections have been compiled by men, who, though eminent 

 in their own departments, have no special knowledge of the group 

 they record : in such cases the credit of both works suffers severely. 



The English section is admirably done by Dr. Carez : a few 

 misprints are inevitable, as "a visit to Chap" (Shap), or the dis- 

 covery of " pievite " instead of picrite ; the author balances a 

 tendency to dock Welsh names, as in " Mynyd Maw," by an un- 

 occasional addition, as in the name of Mr. H. H. Wine? wood. It 

 might have been better to refer Gastaldi's letter to Sterry Hunt to 

 the Geological Magazine, where it was published verbatim, rather 

 than to the few line abstract in the Brit. Assoc. Reports. No com- 

 plaint can, however, be made against the " Annuaire " on the ground 

 of not noticing both places of publication of a work, as they carry 

 the system to an almost unnecessary extent : thus all papers 

 published in the Q.J.G.S. are recorded thrice; in the Journal, in the 

 Abstracts of Proceedings, and in the Geological Magazine where 

 the abstracts are reprinted. 



In the case of so valuable a guide to current literature the 

 geologist must feel too grateful to be critical. The undertaking is 

 ambitious : it aims at combining the bibliographic completeness of 

 the English Records with the short abstracts of the Neues Jahrbuch. 

 Hence it is not surprising that there are many points to which 

 objection might be made : thus in the important consideration of 

 promptness of publication, it is beaten by the Zoological Record by 

 some five months ; l it, however, compensates for this by its greater 



1 It is dated 1S89 on the title-page, but the preface is correctly given as 1890. 



